Land a Video Game Spaceship Using This Super-Realistic Control Panel

Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a difficult game, the kind for people who have mastered flight simulators and want to move on to the next challenge: landing a spaceship on a new planet. KSP is an honest representation of orbital mechanics, and the game has swept through NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

Now, one clever player has built an addition that makes it even more enticing: a gorgeous custom-built control board that mimics a real spaceship.

Jeff Rogers, who used to work on rockets and currently works on self-driving cars, built the device's hardware and software. Luckily, he's put the instructions—including which aluminum to buy and how the JavaScript should look—on his website.